It's A Wonderful Red Green Christmas


 * This article is about the episode. For the  episode, see A Very Merry Red Green Christmas.

Red and the gang celebrate Christmas as only they know how.

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Segments: The Possum Lodge Word Game, If It Ain't Broke, You're Not Trying, Lodge Members On Christmas, The Experts, Handyman Corner, Red's Sage Advice, Adventures With Bill

DVD: The Red Green Show – 1998 Season

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Segment Summary
See also: Transcript

Plot: Red, Harold and the rest of the Possum Lodge gang do various Christmas-related things as only they can.

Opening Scene: Red tries to walk along outside the Lodge, holding huge armfuls of various Christmas lawn ornaments. But he trips and falls down. All the various lawn ornaments fall down on him.

The Possum Lodge Word Game: Mike tries to guess the word "giving" to win an all-expenses-paid trip to France.

If It Ain't Broke, You're Not Trying: Hap brings in a bunch of Christmas lights for Red to fix because a rat had chewed off the plug. Hap insists that the lights be fixed because he had invented them, as a way of saving his platoon from when he was in the army.

Arnie Dogan On Christmas: Arnie sings "I Love Christmas", playing it on his guitar, with Red and Harold joining in.

Handyman Corner: Red makes a one-horse open sleigh out of a K-car.

Red's Sage Advice: How to explain the existence of Santa Claus.

Harold On Christmas: Harold makes a red-and-green-colored arts-and-crafts Christmas calendar chain.

Red On Christmas: In response to Harold's Christmas chain, Red makes a Christmas calendar chain, using a real chain.

Adventures With Bill: Bill and Red go into the woods to cut down a Christmas tree.

If It Ain't Broke, You're Not Trying: Edgar brings in a snow cannon for Red to fix. After fixing it, Edgar helps Red put tinsel on a Christmas tree. He does so by using tinfoil as the tinsel and firing it at the tree from the newly-fixed cannon.

Closing Scene: Red and Harold exchange gifts.

Trivia

 * This is the first hour-long Red Green special that is not a clip show.
 * On the 1998 Season DVD, this episode was severely edited. The only segments that were featured were:
 * The Possum Lodge Word Game
 * If It Ain't Broke, You're Not Trying (with Hap and Edgar)
 * Arnie's song
 * Handyman Corner
 * Red's Sage Advice
 * Harold and then Red making Christmas advent calendars out of chains
 * Adventures With Bill
 * This episode marks the first one since The Schoolhouse Project where two Lodge members instead of one (in this case, Mike and Dalton) join Red and Harold in a "The Experts" segment.

Inside References

 * In Bill's scene, he pulls out two axes out of his pants.

Real-World References

 * The title of this episode is likely based on the 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life, whose story takes place during the Christmas season.
 * The Ghost of Christmas Past (which is what Red claims his parents call Harold) refers to a character in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.

Fast Forward

 * Another Christmas special, A Very Merry Red Green Christmas, would be released in 2000.